An ambitious, thought-provoking, and highly insightful book, Deliver Us from Evil makes an important contribution to the history of slavery in the United States, shedding needed light on the white South's early struggle to reconcile slavery with its Revolutionary heritage.

Lacy K. Ford is Professor of History and Chair of the department at the University of Southern Carolina.

• Introduction


• Section One: The Upper South's Travail


• 1: Owning Slaves, Disowning Slavery


• 2: Rebellion and Reaction


• Section Two: The Lower South's Embrace


• 3: Opening the Slave Trade


• 4: Extending Slavery


• Section Three: Paternalism Rising


• 5: Paternalism Emerges


• 6: Paternalism Contested


• Section Four: Paternalism in Crisis


• 7: The Scare


• 8: Analyzing the Scare


• 9: Reacting to the Scare


• Section Five: Words and Deeds


• 10: Discourses of Colonization


• 11: Rumors and Insurrection


• Section Six: The Upper South Responds


• 12: The Upper South Debates Slavery and Colonization


• 13: Tennessee Debates Slavery


• 14: Ending Free Black Suffrage in North Carolina


• Section Seven: The Lower South Responds


• 15: Reaction in the Lower South


• 16: Abolition Poison and Southern Antidotes


• 17: The Reconfiguration of Slavery


• Conclusion